The British Navy in the Caribbean [ePUB] by John D. Grainger

Author:John D. Grainger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2021-02-17T00:00:00+00:00

1 Rodger, Command of the Ocean, 234–235; Walker, Spanish Politics, 12. »

2 For the bubble see John P. Carswell, The South Sea Bubble, London, 1960; Glyndwr Williams, The Expansion of Europe in the Eighteenth Century, London, 1966, 56–59; another sidelight on the business is displayed in Adrian Finucane, ‘British Traders, Religion, and the Asiento in Spanish American Port Cities’, in Peter C. Mancall and Carole Shammas (eds), Governing the Sea in the Early Modern Era: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Ritchie, San Marino, CA, 2013, 197–221, which has plenty of detail on trading practices as well as Spanish attitudes to the presence of British Protestant merchants in their ports. »

3 For accounts of piracy in the Caribbean see, for example, Colin Woodard, The Republic of Pirates, New York, 2007; Peter Earle, The Pirate Wars, London, 2003, chs 8–10; a useful set of contemporary texts is collected in Joseph Gibbs, On the Account in the ‘Golden Age’: Piracy in the Americas 1670–1726, Brighton, 2014. »

4 Walker, Spanish Politics, 58–59; David Cordingley, Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean: The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers, New York, 2011, 124–126. »

5 Cordingley, Pirate Hunter, 127–129. »

6 Ibid., 129–130. »

7 Floyd, Anglo-Spanish Struggle for Mosquitia; Cordingley, Pirate Hunter, 130–131. »

8 Peter Earle, The Wreck of the Almiranta: Sir William Phipps and the Hispaniola Treasure, London, 1979. »

9 Quoted by Cordingley, Pirate Hunter, 133, from Spotswood’s report to the Committee on Trade and Plantations, TNA CO 5/1265, 159–162. »

10 Cordingley, Pirate Hunter, ch. 8. »

11 Ibid., 178–180. »

12 Walker, Spanish Politics, 152–155. »

13 Clowes, Royal Navy, 43–46; Walker, Spanish Politics, 155. »

14 Walker, Spanish Politics, 156. »

15 TNA ADM 1/231, Stewart to Admiralty Secretary, 16 March 1729/30, which is the source for much of the detail in the next pages, together with ADM 51/4339, captain’s log of Shark, 1729–1730. I have related much of the following story from the point of view of Shark in my book 13 Sharks, Barnsley, 2016, ch. 4, and much of the rest of this chapter is based on that. »

16 Cordingley, Pirate Hunter, 229. »

17 Plans of the installations (not Port Antonio) are in Duncan Crewe, Yellow Jack and the Worm: British Naval Administration in the British West Indies, 1739–1744, Liverpool, 1993, though the chronological range is a good deal wider than the title suggests. »

18 Richard Pares, War and Trade in the West Indies 1739–1765, Oxford, 1935, 15–16. »

19 TNA ADM 51/892, captain’s log of Shark, 1730–1731. »

20 TNA ADM 1/231, Craufurd’s report and orders. »

21 Pares, War and Trade, 16, quoting figures from the Gentleman’s Magazine, March 1738. »

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